The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 88

Then the hermit picked up an apple from the ground, and gave it to him, saying: “Eat half of this apple, and give the rest to your wife, and cease wandering through the world.”

Who acts: hermit · What happens: pick up, give, say, eat, cease, wonder · To what, where: apple, ground, hermit, half, rest, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 picked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apple	det
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gave	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Eat	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Eat	punct
21	Eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saying	ccomp
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 Eat	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 apple	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 apple	det
25	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 half	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Eat	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rest	det
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 wife	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cease	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cease	cc
36	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Eat	conj
37	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 cease	xcomp
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wandering	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	pick up	participle	the hermit	a apple		the ground	then	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Topic
2	give	past	the hermit not said here	apple	hermit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the hermit not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat in a quote	infinitive		half of this apple				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
5	give in a quote	infinitive		the rest	your wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to wife=Recipient
6	cease in a quote	present						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	wonder speech: ask in a quote	gerund				the world		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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